To whom the bell calls

In 1962, a young physicist came to Rear Admiral Peter Fomin and proposed the idea of ​​a new strategic weapon. A powerful 100-megaton torpedo starts from the submarine towards the American port, for example, San Diego, explodes, and the tsunami rose was washed off both the naval base and San Diego, along with its residents and the famous zoo. As the physicist himself honestly wrote, Fomin “was shocked by the“ cannibalist ”character of the project and noticed in a conversation with me ... that the very thought of such a mass murder is disgusting.”

The name of this physicist Andrei Sakharov was called. The recognition made by him does not defeat him at all and only emphasizes the greatness of a person who managed to rise from the usual “scoop”, who has no idea either good or evil, to the great humanist.

Now imagine that at the time of the election of the Congress of People's Deputies in 1989, there would already be technologies of the Black Kremlin PR and the Internet. This torpedo would have surfaced there instantly, and the ladies would still be indignant: “How could a person who calls himself an intelligent give a slap in the face of the historian Yakovlev, who appeared to take an interview to him?” Well, the Kremlin would also add about the fact that “Sakharov was starving for the right of his wife to treat his teeth in Italy” (this can be read on gebash sites today).

As a result, Sakharov would not get to the congress, history may have gone the other way and today we would have watched the next historical Congress of the CPSU on Channel One.

Compared to the destruction of the city of San Diego, the charges against Alexei Navalny today look like notes in a school diary: “Raned to an elderly woman”, “cursed in LiveJournal”, etc. Yes, he performed on Russian marches. Only the performances are recorded , and they words in word coincide with what he spoke at the white -open Mititngs. No zigov. And for the fact that for Zigi the “fascist” Navalny put the Nazis Tesak for three years, for some reason, for some reason, they are bashfully silent.

However, Sakharov of the times of past did not recall anything, because then it was necessary to take care of the day today. He was hungry, the heavens were sent to Muscovites on that day only daily bread. Other products, following the instructions of AP. Paul and the city committee were issued only to working - at the place of service, in a limited number and in a very limited assortment. Everyone had to take a place in line for oil and sour cream at six in the morning.

Worst of all - vodka was given only by coupons, and even then not always. Tobacco stalls were stormed. Even the CGB of the KGB of the USSR, according to the testimony of there, was imposed on the disgrace. Therefore, together with Tsoi, the song "Changes!" Students and academics, engineers and taxi drivers sang.

Today the situation is different, and in Moscow the first generation has been living in a hundred years, which finally managed to shoot. There is a summer house-machine, just in case, a foreign passport, so no changes. We all join the Status Quo party.

The impressive size of this party can be evaluated without looking into statistics. We take the federal bureaucracy. We plus the city bureaucracy to it. We summarize with the employees of state monopolies, state corporations and all large firms involved in the cutting of the budget together with officials. Add retailers to developers. The Army of the security forces votes for the Communist Party, then for the LDPR, then for EP, but still for Status Quo. In this well -fed crowd, even obedient pensioners and shy state employees dissolve without a trace.

A significant part of the intelligentsia should be added here. For, no matter how regrettable it is, it also eats from the pipe, although it gets only small droplets of life -giving moisture. I don’t know how many theaters are now in Moscow, but there were 88 of them under Luzhkov, and it is unlikely that this number has changed since then.

There is no such number of theaters in any world capital, and no need. But in the basement of a neighboring residential building there is a certain mysterious theater "Teremok". Mysterious - for its doors are always closed and open only on holidays. At the same time, I believe that the salary from the city budget is paid to someone every month. And its recipients should be crazy in order to vote for anything except Status Quo.

Of course, the intelligentsia would like more freedom. She does not like NTV and censorship, although the latter, in general, keeps in the framework of decency. Yes, someone is judged there and hold in a cage-but these are not relatives. You can collect unfortunate money, go to a charity concert and thus wash your hands. You can still troll Putin on the Internet to infinity. In a word, you can live.

The madness of Navalny, who is seriously trying to revolution in the well -fed capital of the Hungry Empire, you can sing songs. Navalny explains that living as Moscow lives now - namely, the robbery of the rest of Russia and the slave labor of migrants is not good and generally fraught with consequences. Navalny wants to replace the illegal slaves at construction sites and in housing and communal services unemployed now Tulyaks and Belgorodians. This will give youth provinces new opportunities, but at the same time will grind all the Moscow.

It is against this that the Moscow party Status quo is speaking. Its members remember well the 1990s, when the main engine of reforms-the intelligentsia-lost most of them. And now, for the sake of her well -being, she agrees to put up with slavery, and with a lack of freedom, and with the cooperative “Lake”.

Meanwhile, there is a lot of interesting and unpleasant in the regions. Everyone heard about the Primorsky partisans. But this is far away, and at random, only a few messages from the nearby Ulyanovsk region.

The year 2001. “About 800 residents of the district center in the Baryshsky district for several hours blocked the federal railway track of the South Ural Center due to a multi-day lack of light in the houses” (Kommersant-S.).

The year 2002. “The overlap of the highway ended in tragedy: one person died under the wheels of a truck, and two more were hospitalized. The incident occurred in the village of Starotimoshkino, where there is no longer a week of light and communications ”(“ commenant-s ”).

The year 2007. “The protest rally against raising the residential areas of tariffs was held on January 26. About a thousand people gathered protesters ”(Simbirsk Courier).

And here is a message from March of the current year: “ In the Ulyanovsk region, mass riots are prevented . More than twenty young people were detained. ” During a search in the detainees cars, reinforcement, bats, hammers, axes, knives, a machete and three traumatic pistols were found. “The background of events is still unknown. It is only reported that the version of the national conflict is excluded: all detainees are Slavs. ” Later, the version appeared that the pogroms were left -handed people who were part of the “Left Front”.

Herzen loved to publish similar stories in his “bell” in the edification of Petersburgers. The Herzen bell, as you know, did not wake the Status Quo party, but woke Chernyshevsky, who in a dream and in reality were dreamed of axes. From him, a wave of awakening rolled further up to TT. Dzerzhinsky and berries. After that, the Status Quo party was spread out in a wide geographical space from Belgrade to Harbin and announced that she was "not in exile, but in the message."

If the members of the current Status Quo party will also someday be “in the Epistle”, then its essence can be expressed only by one phrase: “Hello, rake! It's me again ... "

Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Vladimir Rodionov